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>5. Installing Emacspeak</A
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><P
>	Assuming that you have all the items listed in <A
HREF="requirements.html"
>Section 4</A
>, Requirements, you are ready to install
	Emacspeak. The following steps provide the instructions to do so.
	</P
><P
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><OL
TYPE="1"
><LI
><P
>			Go to the Emacspeak site at <A
HREF="http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net"
TARGET="_top"
>http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net</A
>
			and, from the Support and Documentation
			section, select an Emacspeak file to
			download. If you select the binary file,
			<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>emacspeak.tar.gz</TT
>, you
			will need to configure and make Emacspeak.
			If you have some experience with Linux, or if
			you're using a distribution that does not
			support RPMs, you should download this option.
			If your distro supports RPMs, you can download the
			ready-to-install version of Emacspeak
			(<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>emacspeak-14.0-1.noarch.rpm</TT
>).
			</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>			Download the file and place it in
			your home directory.
			</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>			Type <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>su root</B
> and provide
			the root
			password if you are not already logged onto your
			machine as root.  You'll need root
			permissions to install Emacspeak.
			</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>			If you downloaded the rpm version of
			Emacspeak, unpack it using the command
			<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>rpm -i
			emacspeak-14.0-1.noarch.rpm</B
>. If you
			downloaded the binary version, unzip and untar
			the file, then follow the installation
			directions in the README file in the resulting
			<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>emacspeak-14.0</TT
> directory.
			</P
><P
>			Once you have installed the rpm, you'll see a
			message saying that Emacspeak installed
			successfully, as well as some
			additional instructions. 
			</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>			If you are using Emacspeak v.14 or earlier and
			also using ViaVoice TTS as your
			synthesizer, change directories to the
			<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/linux-outloud</TT
>
			directory and type the command
			<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>make</B
>. This command compiles the
			ViaVoice TTS server. If you are not using
			ViaVoice, or if you have Emacspeak v.15 or
			later, you do not need to complete this step.
			</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>			Using the <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>cd</B
> command, change directories to the
			<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/etc</TT
> directory and open
			your <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>profile</TT
> file with
			your favorite text editor
			(you must be root to edit the
			<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>profile</TT
>). Scroll to the
			bottom of the file, then add the following two lines:
			</P
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><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>			export DTK_PROGRAM
			DTK_PROGRAM=<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name of your speech server</I
></TT
>
			</PRE
></FONT
></TD
></TR
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><P
>			The value of DTK_PROGRAM must be the name of your
			speech server. A list of standard
			Emacspeak-supported speech synthesizers and the
			names of their respective speech servers is below.
			</P
><P
></P
><TABLE
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><TBODY
><TR
><TD
>ViaVoice TTS</TD
><TD
>outloud</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
>DecTalk Xpress</TD
><TD
>dtk-exp</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
>DecTalk MultiVoice</TD
><TD
>dtk-mv</TD
></TR
></TBODY
></TABLE
><P
></P
><P
>			Several additional synthesizers are supported,
			but they require add-on speech servers. Refer
			to the documentation for each specific speech
			server for more information.
			</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>			Save your <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>profile</TT
> file
			and close it.
			</P
></LI
></OL
><P
>	Now, you should have installed and configured everything
	required to run Emacspeak. To use Emacspeak, log on to
	your system as someone other than root (you should never run
	Emacspeak as root), and type
	<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>emacspeak</B
> at the prompt. Emacspeak should
	start talking immediately.
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